St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-17
The COUNCILS DOINGS.
It Transacts No Important Business
and Adiourns.
NOT A SINGLE KICK MADE,
The Smoke Nuisance Ordinance Re-
pealed---A Street Commissioner
to Be Investigated.

The city councils work last night was
almost entirely of routine nature, and
there were no animated passages at
arms or amusing by-plays. The special
committee on smoke nuisance recon-
mended that as ''there is as yet no APP
pliance known and in use that
can be relied upon to consume
or prevent the emission of dense smoke
at certain times without a large increase
in the expense of fuel. or injury to boil
ers, that to enforce the ordinance
would he detrimental to large business
interests" that the ordinance should be
repealed, and presented an ordinance to
that effect, which was given its first
reading.
STREET SWEEPING.
Aid. Stoff moved that all cleaning of
paved streets by means of machines
be done under the direction of the city
engineer, the cost to be paid out of
the funds of the ward where the
work is done in proportion to the streets
swept. Aid. Morse wanted the expense
to come out of the general fund as he
considered the Improvement a public
one. The motion was referred to
committee consisting of one
alderman from each of the First, Sec
ond, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
wards, with the instruction that
the committee shall be author
lied to have the sweeping done
with proviso that the expense
shall not come out of the general funds
nor the funds of wards having no paved
appointed: E. M Johnson, Hanscom,
Gilman, Morse, Clark and G. johnson.
TNIE-HoNoRED CUSTOM ATTACKED.
City Comptroller Holbrook presented
a communication asking that the con-
tract for doing the city job
printing be referred to the
city attorney when the job
printing was let, Gessamen & Murphy
were the lowest bidders. The contract
only included certain kinds of printing,
and for other work the firm
has been charging current
prices. For instance, there is
nothing in the contract about litho-
graphing. When a Autograph job was
ordered, the printers claimed it did
not come within the contract and there
comptroller means that the prices shall
be fixed upon all kinds of work. There
is some doubt as to whether this can be
done, as the contract was let in
accordance with charter provision.
YOURS FOR HEALTH"
A petition was received signed by
Health Officer KilvingtOn. Aids. Cooley,
Clark, Morse and Gibson and Gleason,
asking that a delegate be sent from Min
neapOlis to the fifteenth annual meet
ing of the American Public Health aSso-
citation to be held at Memphis, at which
the important questions of the pollution
of water supply, the disposal of refuse
in cities and villages and animal dis
eases that are dangerous to men, are to
be discussed and remedies therefor
recommended. The importance of hav-
ing information upon these all-important
subjects was urged and the council
voted upon the motion Of Aid. Clark to
send Health Inspector Kilvington to the
convention.
AFTER A COMMISSIONER SCALP.
Aids. Cooley and Stoneman presented
six specific charges against James W.
Baird, street commissioner of the
Eighth ward, embodying incompetency,
general miSmanagement, refusal to
obey instructions, mourning obi
cations for grading beyond the ability
of the ward to pay for, signing names
of foremen to time checks without au-
thority, refusing to deliver to the alder
men statement of the condition of the
finances of the said ward and
each one of these charges is
accompanied by a specified
statement of circumstances. Upon
motion of Aid. Cooley the charges were
referred to committee of five, and the
committee instructed to notify Baird of
the time of meeting, which shall be held
not less than ten days after such notice
is served. Aid. Oswald, Morse, E. M.
Johnson, Gleason and Muldoon were
appointed as the committee.
Aid. L'Herault moved that all city en-
ployes be given to-day to attend the
State Fair. President Mareck said: 81
don't believe we should throw away the
city's money like this" and Aid. E. M.
johnson put in, eve never gave 'em a
day to go to the Exposition" The mo-
ton was lost.
An ordinance prohibiting shut-off
water pipes from projecting above the
level of the sidewalk was given it's first
reading.
Carrying errands for city officials was
by vote made one of the duties of the
city hall janitor.
The times of regular meetings of the
council was changed to the first and
third Fridays in each month.
The following plats were adopted:
Camden park, Encouragement of ID. l..
Peck'S addition, James Avenue addi-
ton, Deans addition, first division of
Remington park.
The monthly budget of bills passed
amounted to $50, 466.1S.
The committee on railroads asked for
more time to WreStle with the street car
conductor question.
The report of the committee on public
grounds and buildings that the contract
for furnishing the city fuel be let to
John Norton, the lowest bidder, was
adopted without objection.
The city attorney was instructed to
demand payment from the Brush Elec-
trio Light company of S., ITO, the amount
of Judgment obtained against the city
by the gas company. The Brush COM
pany gave an indemnifying bond in
order to have certain gaslights turned
off, that electric lights might be substi-
tuted, and the gas company secured
Judgment against the city under its con-
tract.
The report of the committee on roads
and bridges letting the contract for the
superstructure of the Franklin avenue
bridge. to the King Iron Bridge
Manufacturing Company of Cleve-
land, O., was adopted, with
the provision that the company is to
wait for the residue of the pay until
bonds are approved by the legislature,
the price to be paid being $S1, 800, the
company to forfeit $3.50 for each day it
is delinquent in completing the bridge
after June l, 1888.
A Mayors Suicide.
ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 16.-Shellman is
town of few hundred inhabitants in
Randolph county. Great excitement
was created in the village yesterday
morning by the sensational Suicide Of